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This position ensures absolute financial compliance, designs rigorous internal controls, and manages the annual budgeting and forecasting processes. The Financial Manager transforms complex accounting data into actionable insights, driving cost-efficiency, profitability, and sustainable business growth across all operational departments\n\nKey Responsibilities and Performance Goals:\n\n1. Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance:\n\nCompile Statements: Direct the preparation of accurate, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow analysis.\n\nEnsure Standards: Guarantee that all accounting entries and disclosures comply strictly with relevant financial reporting frameworks (e.g., IFRS or GAAP) and statutory tax regulations.\n\nLead Audits: Coordinate the entire external audit process, acting as the primary point of contact for auditors, resolving technical inquiries, and closing audit cycles on schedule.\n\nMaintain Ledger: Oversee the integrity of the general ledger, reconciliations, fixed asset registers, and subsidiary ledgers managed by the accounting team.\n\n2. Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting:\n\nDrive Budgeting: Lead the annual corporate budget formulation, working with department heads to build justifiable revenue projections and expense limits.\n\nAnalyze Variance: Conduct monthly budget-versus-actual variance analyses, identifying operational inefficiencies and proposing corrective actions to executive management.\n\nBuild Models: Develop rolling cash flow forecasts and mid-to-long term financial models to evaluate capital constraints, profitability pipelines, and growth targets.\n\n3. Treasury and Capital Management:\n\nOptimize Liquidity: Monitor daily corporate liquidity, manage working capital requirements, and optimize banking relationships to secure competitive credit facilities.\n\nEvaluate Investments: Conduct financial feasibility studies, net present value (NPV) analyses, and internal rate of return (IRR) calculations for proposed capital projects or investments.\n\nManage Tax: Oversee corporate tax planning, ensuring timely and accurate compliance with corporate income tax, VAT, payroll taxes, and statutory filings.\n\n4. Internal Controls and Organizational Leadership:\n\nMitigate Risk: Design, enforce, and audit internal financial controls to safeguard company assets, minimize risk, and prevent fraud or operational waste.\n\nDirect Staff: Provide leadership, performance management, and continuous technical training to the corporate accounting and corporate finance personnel\n\nKey Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Targets:\n\nFinancial Closing Timeline: Complete the monthly financial close process and deliver reporting packages within 5 business days following month-end.\n\nForecast Accuracy Ratio: Maintain a forecast variance of less than ±3% for quarterly revenue and operational expenditure projections.\n\nAudit Compliance Index: Achieve a clean, unqualified external audit opinion annually with zero material weaknesses or significant deficiencies identified.\n\nWorking Capital Optimization: Optimize the working capital cycle to increase the current ratio to a target range between 1.5 and 2.0.\n\nBudget Variance Threshold: Limit unapproved departmental budget overruns to 0%through proactive monthly expense monitoring and system-enforced alerts\n\nDesired Experience & Qualification\nJob Specifications and Qualifications:\n\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or business administration. 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